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Unlawful combatants: a genealogy of the irregular fighter/
The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful comba...
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Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=6_0bBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA188&dq=Unlawful+combatants&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEvP_u5_rPAhUBQ48KHR7FAa8Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Unlawful%20combatants&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- The making of the irregular fighter, 1740-1815
- The nineteenth century: rebels, rifles, and the laws of war
- The Second World War: anti-partisan warfare, genocide, and the rebirth of the auxiliary fighter
- Wars in the colonies: orientalism and the social production of colonial subjects
- Irregular fighters in the twenty-first century: between "unlawful combatants" and "rebel" auxiliaries
- Conclusion.